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SCREAM VI

March 11, 2023 By Leave a Comment

SCREAM VI

The Scream franchise is not one that wants to be taken seriously as a straight horror film. From the first iconoclastic installment so many years ago, its aim, it’s very raison d’être, was to call out the conventions of slasher films and then serve up a gory slashfest to an audience primed to laugh at… Read More »

Tagged With: franchise, Ghost Face, Manhattan, New York City, requel, sequel, serial killer, sisters

INFINITY POOL

January 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment

INFINITY POOL

    With INFINITY POOL Brandon Cronenberg continues his father’s great tradition of unsettling images and quasi-familiar realities. He diverges in that, for all the normalization of the disquieting, in that he fails to evince the same undertone impish glee at the macabre so evident in even the elder Mr. Cronenberg’s darkest works. Still, he… Read More »

Tagged With: corruption, execution, exploitation, foreign country, orgy, strobe, tourism

BLACK ADAM

October 21, 2022 By 2 Comments

BLACK ADAM

Until now, BATMAN VS SUPERMAN has been the nadir of DC’s excursions into cinema. Now it has lost even that paltry distinction with the onset of BLACK ADAM, a film with much sound and fury that signifies nothing. Not even Dwayne Johnson, one of the most charismatic movie stars working today can right this shipwreck,… Read More »

Tagged With: DC Comics, DCEU, egregious plot device, Middle East, superhero, western cultural imperialists, wizard

FIRE OF LOVE

July 23, 2022 By 1 Comment

FIRE OF LOVE

Dosa infuses her story with a dash of the mythic, honoring her subjects who came to see volcanoes in mythic terms despite being rigorous scientists. There is more here than can be explained in merely factual terms.

Tagged With: lava, Mount St. Helens, pyroclastic flow, sentient lava, thermal suit, volcano, volcanolgists

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

May 31, 2022 By Leave a Comment

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE

Click here for the flashback interview with David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen for EASTERN PROMISES. With CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, David Cronenberg once again presents us with a dystopian future, or is it an alternate present, that is alien and yet, somehow, instantly familiar. It’s not just the machines that mimic the skeletal structures of… Read More »

Tagged With: autopsy, body horror, body modification, collapsing ecosystem, dystopian future

ON THE COUNT OF THREE

May 14, 2022 By Leave a Comment

ON THE COUNT OF THREE

Jerrod Carmichal is a quietly compelling presence in his directorial debut, ON THE COUNT OF THREE. As Val, half of a suicidal duo out to make the last day of their lives count for something, or at least to make it a day less depressing than the ones that have so far rounded out their… Read More »

Tagged With: bully, guns, mulch, psychiatry failure, reason for living, revenge, suicide

HOUSE OF GUCCI

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

HOUSE OF GUCCI

HOUSE OF GUCCI is a ramshackle accretion of muddled plots studded with oddly incoherent character development and performances that range from stock (Al Pacino) to enigmatic (Adam Driver). This overlong effort takes a tale of sex, money, and power among the super rich and renders it into a dull slog brightened only by Lady Gaga’s… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, designer, huate couture, internecine fighting, Italy, Milan

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

For all the meticulous detail in THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE about the early life of Tammy Faye Bakker, this biopic about the rise of fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker has an ending that is curiously sparse. It’s not just Tammy Faye’s second marriage to Roe Messner that is erased, though he does… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Christianity, evangelicals, hypocrisy, religion, televangelism

NIGHTMARE ALLEY

December 15, 2021 By Leave a Comment

NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Flames are never far from Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper), starting with those lapping near, but not too near, his heels as he exits the house that he’s just set alight over the body he’s deposited beneath the floorboards. In Guillermo del Toro’s oneiric vision of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel, NIGHTMARE ALLEY. Notice, too, the… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a novel, carnival, con artist, mentalist, metaphor, mind reader

ANTLERS

October 31, 2021 By Leave a Comment

ANTLERS

I don’t know that I subscribe to the idea that there are some works of prose that are “unfilmable.” This is not to say that a successsful translation from one art form to another doesn’t require a certain amount of compromise around the source material. Prose, while relying on the eyes in order to absorb… Read More »

Tagged With: Filial Relationships, glistening viscera, myth, mythic creatures, Native-American, Oregon

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